The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-16
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

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ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN
Miss LUCIA T. AMEs in the Wom-
ans Journal. gives graphic pen-por.
traits of ''three Boston girls"
Mrs. JAMES G. BLAINE, Jr., is one
of the most enthusiastic of photograph
&c amateurs, and her flower pictures
form collection worth examining.
QUEEN Garcia, of Saxony, has es-
tablished a free kindergarten for the
benefit of children of poor laborers on
her estate, Sibyllenort, where she an
nually spends part of the summer.
MISS CHARLOTTE MORRILL,, of Brook
lyn. whose paper received such uni
versal notice at the Mt Holyoke semi
centennial. has been spoken of as the
possible successor of Miss Freeman as
president of Wellesley College.
MIS-. EMMA E. DAVIS. of Hartford,
Conn.,. has brought suit against the
publishers of the Holyoke Transcript
for 1900. because of certain articles
published in the Transcript last Febru-
airy, which she considers defamatory.
Mrs. E. L. SAXON rendered most
effective service to the suffrage cause
in Kansas before the passage of the
municipal suffrage bill there. She has
since made her home in Kansas on ac-
count of the justice done to women in
that State.
Miss KATE FIELD lectured in Alaska
to large and attentive audience. Her
subject was IAN Evening with
Dickens" 1t was strange sight in
the Mining Camp of juneau, the
largest town in Alaska, to hear a
woman's lecture.
Mrs. MARY p. BABCOCK has pre-
sented to the Northwestern University
the herbarium of her husband. the late
Prof. Henry H. Babcock. The herba-
rum contains more than ten thousand
species, and the plants are mounted in
excellent form. They are from all
parts of the world. Prof Babcock was
the most eminent botanist in Chicago.
Miss SARAH EWING, of the Sampson
Manufacturing Company's shoe shop.
in North Adams, has won the prize
offered by a button machine company,
for the operative who. on one of their
machines, would sew on the most but
tons in one day of ten hours. Miss
Ewing's record was p, 1874 buttons. an
average of forty-five and one-fOurth
for each minute in the day.
Mrs. EL1zBBETH POTTER GOULD tells
pleasantly how she became a suf-
fragist by attending suffrage sociable
of the Massachusetts, Woman Suffrage
Association and becoming acquainted
with the members, whom she found
very much like other people. She
found them neither odd nor 'shriek-
ing" but quietly and earnestly trying
to win friends to their cause.
Mrs SIMEON FARwELL, of Chicago.
gives a fifty-dollar cash prize to that
member of the Ossoli Society (e1clu-
sively ladies) who shall write and read
the best English essay. 1t is needless
to say that this contest, next to Kirk.
is the most popular. The Methodist
Church, with a seating capacity Of
twelve hundred. is always crowded.
The last prize was taken by Miss Cora
L. Allen. of Turner junction. III.
Mrs. JAMES BENNETT. of Richmond,
KY, '.believes it to be the will of our
Heavenly Father that women shall OBJ
tain suffrage and the equal protection
of the laws by public appeals to the
godlike sentiments of justice. mercy
and love in the hearts of men," has ad.
dressed an open letter to President
Cleveland, asking him to urge Con-
gress to protect women in their rights
as citizens, and especially in their
rights to vote.
Mrs. E. A. WHITAKER. editor Of the
woman's department of the ~ E.
Farmer, gives excellent suggestions
for summer amusement, combined
with instruction. such as collecting
and preparing specimens of insects,
sea-mOsses, shells, birds eggs, miner
ais, grasses. flowers and other natural |
also the study of botany.
especially by the children Of farmers
who have access to many wild flowers;
also, for those who have even a few
days by the sea, the collection and
of sea-mosses.
HELEN S. ABBOTT, of Philadelphia,
has been elected a member of the
Society in that city. of